SDCL § 21-38-1: Court records and register of deeds records subject to restoration procedure.

Whenever the loss or destruction of any record or any part thereof, of any circuit or magistrate court, or of any record in the office of the register of deeds of an instrument affecting the title to real property in this state shall have happened, or shall hereafter happen, and the original instrument from which said record was made, or a duly certified copy thereof cannot be produced, the record of such instrument may be established and restored as provided in this chapter.